The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-08
The Personal Abuse of Gladstone and Parnsll
Regarded as Certain Indication that
Their Power Is Greater Than Ever.
The Chinese Government Promptly As
slsts the Pope Out of a Difficulty.
Interesting Results Expected from the Naval
Naneuvers of the Coming Snmmer-Mis-
cellaneous Foreign News by Cable.
ENGLISH POLITICS.
Increasing Warmth of the Contest for and
Against Irish Home Rule

Increasing Warmth of the Contest for and
Against Irish Home Rule.
Special to the Indianapolis journal
LONDON. May Political passion is rising to
awhile heat. .ard as day by day It becomes
palmer that the cause to which the Times il
committed is lost cause. so does the Times
harden its heart and sharpen the daecers by
which it hopes to stab the regulations Of its on
ponents to death. For this is really what the
attacks on Parnell, Dillon and other Nationalist
mean They are the tactics of desperation, tha
despairins struggles of a logically beaten
party. Violent personal abuse is a sure
sign OF sense OF danger. and SO long as a man
is not greatly feared he is not. as a rule, very
violently hated The personal hatred of Mr..
Gladstone has gone in direct proportion to his
political power. and if by any chance ne should
cease to be formidable he might hope for q won
derfu improvement in his reputation in Tory
circles. The extravagant violence of the attacks
of Tory membsrs on the Parnellites, coupled
wiki the Times's accusations point to the Begin
ming of the end. Nothing could we'll mark more
significantly the gulf which divides the Irish
from the English feeling or, at least. the
feeling of a great majority of the Irish
people, from that of the English majority in
Parliament, than the treatment accorded the
beyond Ireland, wherever the Irish people ara
scattered. Mr.. Parnel can command the COM
plete, enthusiastic support of millions of his
fellow-countrymen. They would trust him
without shadow of hesitation with the lives
and liberties Of all that is dear to them. There
is no honor they would not willingly confer on
him, sacrifice which many of them
would not make at his bidding Yet
this is the man who, in the
vulgar imagination Of the Times, and of the
unfortunately too numerous class represented
by the Times-iust because . scathing accusa-
ton has been wantonly brought against him--is
to hejtheld up criminal trial. q moral
leper to be summed by honest men. To them
he represents the spirit of disorder; to his coun-
trymen that of the only order which they care
to see, which can command their abiding
respect Tho very fact that the parliamentary
has now reached such power and nreponderancs
that it has overcome and absorbed the vio-
lent and lawless movements which have till
recently competed with il for influence is
now actually made q charge against the consti-
tutional party. That this has happened, and
that many men who formerly advocated meth
DDS of violence as alone affordiHg hope. have
been converted to methods of peaceful agitation,
is the grain of fact which underlies the bushel OF
fiction with which the Times overloads aud hides
It. 1t is fact not in the least discreditable to
Mr.. Parnell and his party, but very much tho
It is this which. for the first time. haa
made possible the success of the Nationalist
cause. and this which has made it desirable to
the Liberals that it should triumph